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Description: | A cast copper alloy Late Medieval to Post Medieval clapper bell. It is complete and measures 44.21mm in diameter at the mouth, which is everted from a circumferential groove 5mm from the edge. It is 49.66mm in height, and has a vertical tab at the top which is pierced with a circular hole for suspension. There is a patch of corrosion just below the suspension hole, and a narrow grrove separates the top of the bell from the tab. There is further corrosion inside the bell cavity and the remains of a loop to hold a clapper are in situ. It weighs 70.27g.A similar but slightly smaller bell is illustrated in Egan 2005, fig 198, no.1175, from an early Post-Medieval context in London. This type of bell is found on sites of religious houses and may be associated with liturgical bells used at Mass. A fifteenth to sixteenth century date is suggested from contexts in which such bells were found in Winchester (Hinton in Biddle, 1990, 725-6, fig 207)
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